Tuesday, May 31, 2005

New Teachers *Must* Be Libs

Brooklyn College's School of Education has begun to base evaluations of aspiring teachers in part on their commitment to social justice, raising fears that the college is screening students for their political views.

Read the whole thing for yourself. If you see nothing wrong with this you're too far gone for help.

So the Left is using this as code for multiculturalism and affirmative action, and a high level of welfare benefits, I take it. That's different.

I don't like the idea of screening teachers for political views either (short of advocating the violent overthrow of the US government, which should be fair game, I guess). I'm a social studies teacher, and we tend to be a fairly self-selected bunch in my NE state anyway. I do think that teachers who are intolerant of minorities will have a hard time advocating the level of tolerance for others that's the norm in our society these days. But there are lots of limits on folks like that anyway (pissed-off parents, for instance), so I don't worry too much about them.